The 2010 National Education Technology Plan demonstrates the importance of educators becoming more connected to resources, tools, colleagues, experts, and learning activities, both within and beyond schools. Participation in online communities of practice is a key way educators connect. Robust online participation contributes both to individual excellence and to the vitality of the profession as a whole. The Connected Online Communities of Practice project will steward a scalable, sustainable ecology of online communities in education to improve teacher and leader effectiveness, enhance student learning and increase productivity.
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Create Your Model, Your Multi-Dimensional Learning Space
What does it mean to be well-educated in the 21st Century? How does this shift the notion of teaching and learning? What are the core values, beliefs, and methodologies that all classrooms are rooted? These are the core questions schools need to collectively discuss and act upon if they are to fundamentally shift the educational landscape.
SVVSD Learning Ecology
In the St. Vrain Valley School District, our digital learning ecology is comprised of a diverse set of tools that work together to provide multiple methods of communicating, collaborating, creating, and sharing. Deciding which tool is best for your purpose and audience requires a clear understanding of your intended outcomes as well as an understanding of the tools available.
This ecology, like all, is constantly in flux, but the dominant structures remain, ready to be used and shared by all those who find themselves within them. Our goal, in building learning spaces, is to help make spaces for cross pollinating and overlapping communities of interest.
The graphic below is a visual representation of the intersection of purpose and audience and can help build an understanding of where your intended outcomes fit in the continuum.
From Open Educational Resources to Open Educational Practices « Learning Change
The idea of open education has spread to hundreds of educational institutions, foremost higher education and adult learning institutions, across the globe. “Giving away knowledge for free” seemed like a revolutionary idea, it fascinates educators, interests learners, scares publishing houses and challenges educational organisations who view selling produced knowledge as their core-business. In Europe, Initiatives like the Open Educational Quality Initiative and the OERTest project are working on a culture shift in higher education and adult education to raise acceptance and educational transformation through OER.
Think Thank Thunk » TEDxEPS Talk Prep
I have a natural aversion to futurism, so my talk is going to center on pragmatism. I want teachers, parents, administrators, and students that listen to my talk to know what a young teacher views as his ideal future school.
Videos | Project Based Learning | BIE
When it comes to PBL, most people ask, “Can you give me an overview? Are there specific examples? Help! Where do I start?” The following videos were produced or selected to help answer those initial questions. We also have a YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/biepbl.
Technology Is Not the Answer – James Fallows – Technology – The Atlantic
In project after project, the lesson was the same: information technology amplified the intent and capacity of human and institutional stakeholders, but it didn’t substitute for their deficiencies. If we collaborated with a self-confident community or a competent non-profit, things went well. But, if we worked with a corrupt organization or an indifferent group, no amount of well-designed technology was helpful. Ironically, although we looked to technology to attain large-scale impact into places where circumstances were most dire, technology by itself was unable to improve situations where well-intentioned competence was absent. What mattered most was individual and institutional intent and capacity.
YouTube – Patrick Callahan speaks at Ignite NCSM
Math presentation on Algebra that is worth watching.
with iPads – Learning Continuity
HS list of apps for the ipad.
Hottest Apps used by Apple Distinguished Educators
A list of recommended ipod/ipad apps.